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Chapter 7 of 10
易隐
Volume Five of Yiyin primarily covers three major divination systems: the divination of Yin-house geomancy (feng shui for graves) , the divination of weather (clear skies and rain) , and the divination of imperial court and annual seasonal fortunes. You Nanzi states clearly at the outset: to divine geomancy, one must sequentially examine the completeness or defects of the mountain layout, the fortune or misfortune of the mountain's cyclic运势 (mountain fortune), the grandeur of the terrain, the auspiciousness or inauspiciousness of the orientation, the mutual generation or conquest between people and land, and the truth or falsity of the acupoint condition. Only after investigating layer by layer the memorial table mountains (Anshan), the bright hall (Mingtang), the Azure Dragon and White Tiger, the backing mountain, the incoming dragon vein, and the water outlet, can the method be considered a complete art of geomancy (Kanyu).
In the divination of Yin-houses, the World line (Shi Yao) and Body line (Shen Yao) are key to determining whether land purchase is successful; the Guigu yin-yang line distribution determines the positions of the six relatives' graves; the Three Harmonies Combination (Sanhe ju) is used to infer the rise and fall of mountain fortune; the hexagram body determines terrain; the World line determines the height of the seated mountain; the World and Grave branches determine the tomb's direction; the inner and outer hexagrams discuss the relationship between people and land; and the already-buried versus not-yet-buried distinction examines acupoint conditions. The entire section elaborates dozens of minor items of judgment, including the memorial table mountains, the bright hall, the Azure Dragon and White Tiger, the backing mountain, the incoming dragon, the water outlet, soil colors, objects within acupoints, burial methods, grave relocation, and death away from home, resulting in a complete system of judgments.
The divination of clear skies and rain synthesizes judgment from eight dimensions: the prosperity or decline of the five elements within palace lines, the movement or stillness of the five elements, the selection of the six relatives, the characteristics of the six spirits, stems and their transformations, inner-outer and world-response lines, the attributes of the eight trigrams, and spirit-killing responses. In court divination, the World line is the sovereign, the fifth line is the Son of Heaven, the second line is the empress, the Descendant (or Sons line) is the heir apparent, the Father line is the city walls, the Wealth line is the national treasury, and the Officer line is treacherous ministers. These separately discuss the sovereign, empress and consorts, the Eastern Palace (heir), remonstrating officials, city walls, treasuries, treacherous ministers, official appointments, line imagery, and the span of dynastic years. Annual divination takes the Grand Duke Jupiter as the guiding principle, combined with the five elements and six spirits, to determine floods, droughts, wars, epidemics, harvests, disasters, and portents.
Below is the detailed explication of Yin-House Feng Shui Divination:
The World line and Body line serve as the main basis. If the World has support and growth but the Body is void, the land may be satisfactory, yet matters may still fail. If the Body is unharmed and the World is void, the feng shui may be good, but one's own resolves are unsettled. If the hexagram body is hidden, no need to discuss the Body.
Adopting the Guigu yin-yang line distribution method, the correspondence between the eight trigram palaces and grave positions is as follows:
| Lyric position | Left Column (palace) | Right Column (palace) |
|---|---|---|
| Top line (6th) | Ancestral grave | Great-grandfather's grave |
| Fifth line | Father's grave | Father's grave |
| Fourth line | Wife's grave | Ancestral grave |
| Third line | Uncles and brothers' graves | Great-grandmother's grave |
| Second line | Mother's grave | Mother's grave |
| First line (initial) | Children's graves | Ancestral grandmother's grave |
Observe which line injures or overcomes the Body/World; which line is void, dies, declines, or wholly severed; or if the Four Pillars' moving lines punish, harm, overcome, or clash it. This indicates that the grave has lost its vitality and brings disadvantage. If the palace line is vigorous, phase-prosperous, unharmed, and generates or unites with Body/World, this indicates a fine cemetery. For an already-buried acupoint, take the Officer line as corpse; if the Officer is vigorous and generates or unites with Body/World, it is auspicious; if it clashes or injures Body/World, it is inauspicious. If the Officer is weak but the World is strong, this place's auspiciousness no longer belongs to that child; if the World is weak and the Officer is strong, the graveyard will bless another branch of descendants.
In divining graves, first take Ju (局 lays of the board) as primary. If the great Image (whole-hexagram Atmosphere) possesses favorable emotional resonance (有有情), one may infer clear mountains and beautiful waters, outstanding people, and prosperous family. If the current board (本局 is overcome by the three transmissions & (afflicting), destruction, emptiness, or lack of aura, the reading says that people and wealth wither and disperse.
Mountain's fortunes and their driving lines.
To determine auspicious misfortune regarding one's fate, one consults generation combinations using timing such as an earthly trunk's heaven phase. I initially methodized earth-diviner dictata. Rather than cite footnote heavily you require well the passages: determine the wealth/or ruin which circumstances afford– for wood– descendant life; the initial stem has. If old native-pit decrees harmony of household might multiply.
Use Hexagram Body to determine terrain
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